Top Poet Quotes
I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.
Leslie Fiedler
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
God is the perfect poet.
Robert Browning
Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.
Vicente Aleixandre
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
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Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
Sigmund Freud 
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Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.
Joseph Brodsky
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He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
George Sand
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Are you really going to see Lewis? One of the few people it's worth getting excited over, I think. I know he is a good poet. I daresay he never heard of me, but I wish you would tell him that his work is the joy of my life.
Ruth Pitter
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The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them.
Salvatore Quasimodo
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.
Niels Bohr
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The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.
Theophile Gautier
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Popular Poet Authors
Friedrich NietzscheWilliam ShakespeareOscar WildeMarcus Tullius Cicero PlatoAbraham LincolnWilliam HazlittGeorge Santayana HoraceKahlil GibranGeorge OrwellEmile M. CioranRobert FrostE. M. ForsterW. Somerset Maugham
Ernest HemingwayVirginia WoolfCharles BaudelaireBryant H. McGillWoody AllenWalt WhitmanLord ChesterfieldSigmund FreudGustave FlaubertWilliam Butler YeatsJames Russell LowellT. S. EliotFrank Lloyd WrightW. H. AudenJames Thurber
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